What is Tumbao?!

The word originates in Afro-Cuban music as a basic rhythm played on the bass but in Afro-Caribbean slang, this word has come to mean style, grace, rhythm, flair, panache, vigor, attitude, poise, confidence, and an unapologetic in-your-face sense of self!

Join us in a musical and visual celebration of Afro-Latin culture that will include traditional Afro-Cuban and Afro-Dominican music as well as works by Montsalvatge, Bor, Lecuona, and more.

Zuly Inirio, Soprano - Amaury Morales, Piano - Hugo Cruz, Percussion

Regular Admission - $35.00 Senior - $28.00 Student / Child - $17.50

Fantasy in C, op. 17 by Robert Schumann

1. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton - Quite fantastic and passionately delivered; In the tone of a legend.

American Protégé Winners Recital

Weill Recital Hall - Carnegie Hall

Performing: Choros no. 5 “Alma Brasileira” by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Pittsburgh Perspectives Festival

Hilario González (1920-1999): Preludio en Conga No. 2 (adapted for Woodwind Quartet by Amaury Morales)

Jonathan Piña Duluc (b. 1978): "El tiempo que se va" for Woodwind Quartet & Piano (commissioned by I.C.Players)

Andrew Griffin: Prelude and Fugue for solo piano

El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (Adapted by David Fitzpatrick)

The magnificent Misatango by Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri, performed in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Camerata

Also in the program:
Mendelssohn O for the Wings from his cantata Hear My Prayer featuring Soprano Megan Althouse
Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira No. 9

Tickets:

https://copgh.ticketleap.com/tango-and-two/

Daniel Nesta Curtis, Director of Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble

This program features the world premiere of 2 new works by CMU’s very own Nancy Galbraith. These works will feature school of music faculty member Sarah Steranka as solo flutist and soprano Anna Elder. Anna will also collaborate on Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy’s song cycle That the Night Come with poetry by W. B. Yeats. Professor Galbraith's composition and Ted Hearne's But I Voted for Shirely Chisholm involve live electronics with the acoustic ensemble.

Free and open to the public. Tickets are required.

Tuesday Musical Club Recital Series Presents:

Ignis 4-hands piano duo

Program:

• Danza del ritual del fuego by Manuel de Falla (transcribed by Ignis duo)

• 5 Spanish dances by Moritz Moszkowski

• The rite of spring by Igor Stravinsky

Amaury Morales and Maja Petrovic, 4-hands piano

Streamed online via youtube:

Incidental Chamber Players, presents: 

ELEMENTS. Each concert in this five-concert series is curated by one of its members featuring music that speaks to their personal histories or “elements” of their identities. Dedicated to their mission of highlighting music that has been unjustly forgotten or ignored, the program includes works and transcriptions by Cuban and Dominican composers, most of which will be Pittsburgh and/or world premières. Curated by Amaury Morales.

3 Cuban Dances by Ignacio Cervantes for piano 4-hands

3 Preludes in Conga by Hilario González, transcribed for wind quartet by Amaury Morales

Suite For piano and winds by Jonathan Piña (World Première)

Guest Composer Pablo Gómez-Estévez will present:

Liminal, for flute and piano

Samedi, for oboe and piano

Neruda, for clarinet and piano

Sola Fide, for wind quintet and piano

Tickets ($15 for adults, $5 for students) may be purchase at the door or online at a discounted rate. www.icplayers.org

Reception and meet the artists will follow

A Holiday Concert featuring pianists Amaury Morales, Maja Petrovic, and soprano Takako Kiyota-Petek

Selections from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses by F. Liszt

• Invocation

• Ave Maria

• Pater Noster

• Hymne de l’enfant à son réveil

• Cantique d’amour

Selections from the Nutcracker suite op. 71a by P. Tchaikovsky for 4-hands piano

Songs by Handel and Mozart

Admission $12, Reception to follow

Program includes Kati Agócs' Immutable Dreams, for Pierrot Ensemble, and Missy Mazzoli's work In Spite of All This, after which the program is titled, reflects the hope that we have for people to continue to thrive and create a better future for all despite current forces which seek to undermine that opportunity.

$15 General Admission/ $5 students

Tickets and more info www.nat28.org

Lux in Tenebris Series

Works by: Ignacio Cervántes, Hilario Gonzalez, Rafael Landestoy, Mendelssohn, and More.

Admission $12

Reception to follow concert

"American (Classical) Bandstand: Four-Hand Piano Edition"

Including: Samuel Barber’s Souvenirs, suite op. 28, for piano 4-hands

Amaury Morales and Maja Petrovic, piano

Organized by Lori Gilbert

Free public event

Reception to follow

Portrait Series: Amy Williams

The program includes five of Amy’s chamber works interspersed with interludes from her well-known Cineshapes, a series of pieces inspired by structural and thematic elements from different films. The works on this concert highlight NAT 28’s flexible and broad instrumentation: Dream Landscape for percussion quartet, Quodlibet for flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello, and piano, and Switch for piano four-hands.

$15 admission / $5 students

Antarctica Suite: Music for Piano and Toy Piano

Amaury Morales presents an Ibero-American program, alongside Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

2 pieces by Rafael Bullumba Landestoy

5 pieces by Ignacio Cervántes

Preludio en Conga no. 3 by Hilario Gonzáles

Canción y Danza no. 6 by Federico Mompou

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

Featuring:

Christiane Dolores and Amanda Van Story Lewis: From The Erlkönig and Debussy to modern vocal improvisation, Pittsburgh soprano Amanda Van Story Lewis and multiartist Christiane Dolores offer a 21st-century look at the tradition of the lied, with Zoltan Weslowski (bass) and Amaury Morales (piano).

Alia Musica premieres Within the Wall, a new quintet by Festival Composer Marilyn Shrude, conducted by Federico Garcia-De Castro.

General Admission: $20

Come celebrate spring at Brown Chapel AME Church in the North Side.

Joined by Pianist Maja Petrovic, and Soprano Takako Kiyota-Petek, we will showcase compositions by Bernstein, Debussy, Handel, Pittsburgh Local Composer Alex Marthaler, Ponce, and more.

Donation: $12 at the door

Reception after Performance

NAT 28 celebrates its close connection to the music and culture of France. The ensemble's own composer-in-residence and French native (from Bordeaux), Jean-Patrick Besingrand has selected a program of works by his teachers and colleagues which capture the breadth of contemporary music in France today. 

The program includes works by Georges Barboteu, Benoit Albert, Jean-Louis Agobet, Etienne Rolin, Pierre Boulez, and a world-premiere by Jean-Patrick Besingrand for the full ensemble.

$15 Admission/$5 Students